Young English learners face a two-fold challenge in learning to read. They need to learn how to map spoken sounds to written letters, the phonics skills that allow them to decode words on the page, ...

Learning English is fun and creative. But it can be challenging at times when you don’t have a partner to practice with. You may worry about making grammar mistakes. You may not even know if you are ...

January 22, 2026 - Fausto Lopez finished high school, got an associate degree and applied to attend a four-year college - all while inside juvenile detention. English learners need foundational skills ...

Over the past few years, some states have spent millions of dollars and passed new laws in an attempt to shift the way that schools teach kids how to read. These efforts take aim at commonly used ...

'Practise' and 'practice' look very similar but their meaning is very different. In fact, there are a number of other English words that end in '-ice' and '-ise' which can be confusing for English ...

Two prominent California advocacy organizations for English learners are firmly opposing a new state bill that would mandate that reading instruction be aligned with the “science of reading,” saying ...

No me gusta nada el instituto. Yo creo que hago muchos esfuerzos, pero nunca saco buenas notas. Cuando llegué a clase un poco tarde la semana pasada, me gritó el director y me dijo que soy muy ...

This research was partially funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF). While this problem has received considerable attention, no clear explanation has emerged. In my recent PhD thesis, I ...